A reconsideration of the philosophical destiny of education
This volume collects some of the foremost voices in contemporary thought to think through this question from their unique perspectives. Revealing the contentions and possibilities of a new engagement with the question of education, it provides fresh insights into education: what it is, what it is not, and what is to be done about it.
At a time when education is so important as to be considered an essential 'human right', and yet is everywhere under attack, this book will open the thinking on education onto new and important territory.
A.J. Bartlett teaches philosophy in Melbourne. Justin Clemens is Associate Professor in English and Theatre Studies at the University of Melbourne.

A. J. Bartlett is Adjunct Research Fellow at the Research Unit in European Philosophy at Monash University. He is the author of Badiou and Plato: An Education by Truths (Edinburgh University Press, hb 2011, pb 2015) and translator, with Alex Ling, of Badiou's Mathematics of the Transcendental (Bloomsbury Academic, 2014).

Justin Clemens is Associate Professor in English and Theatre Studies at the University of Melbourne.

Introduction. What is Education? A Polemical Question, A. J. Bartlett & Justin Clemens; 1. Education: not impossible, A. J. Bartlett; 2. Education and the Enclosure of Knowledge in the Global University, Silvia Federici; 3. Knowledge Enclosure & University Education: Notes from 'Post-restructured' Bangladesh, Mushahid Hussain; 4. Beyond the Human State: Bergson, Education, and the Art of Life, Keith Ansell-Pearson; 5. The master and the professor are dead, and I am not feeling well myself, Mladen Dolar; 6. Herod, the Ogre... and Miss Cooper's rifle: Education as a refuge for childhood and the world, Jorge Larrosa; 7. Parlomurs: A Dialogue on Corruption in Education, Alessandro Russo; 8. When shall we go...?, Judith Balso; Bibliography.